A Sunday ordinary at Highgate mb-height 1945 The fair was part of

The fair was part of the Peace Celebrations of 1814 after the defeat and first exile of Napoleon

Somerset House was designed by William Chambers and built between 1776 and 1786

which stands in the grounds of Westminster Abbey

One part of the 'Grand Architectural Panorama of London'

A Sunday ordinary at Highgate mb-height 1945 The fair was part of'A Sunday ordinary at Highgate', 1784. A waiter serving a crowd of diners at a table, spilling gravy over one of them while his attention is distracted by a woman with her child on his other side; there is more enthusiasm than daintiness in the eaters and a dog and cat are standing over a bone on the floor.